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https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108273/combining-decentralisation-with-centralisation-ftw-vision-roadmap-for-steem-integration-urekaorg-earth-heart-communitySat, 25 May 2019 13:18:01 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108273/combining-decentralisation-with-centralisation-ftw-vision-roadmap-for-steem-integration-urekaorg-earth-heart-community
As you may be aware, I have been very busy recently writing lots of code and making many improvements to @ureka. The main focus, besides general maintenance, has been to integrate the #steem blockchain into Ureka, to produce a hybrid Steem dApp (Decentralised App) that both supports the benefits of the Steem blockchain and the benefits of a centralised social network. In this post I'll be going over some of these benefits and letting you know where I'm up to and where Ureka is going this year (allegedly, somehow the 2019th year - apparently...) ;).

What makes a decentralised social network great?

In the case of Steem, any social network/app that uses it will benefit from:

Freedom: Immutable content storage (very hard to censor).

Community: A built in audience (Steem has over 1 million accounts created and over 50,000 regular users).

Financial Incentives: Directly receive reward payments in cryptocurrency that can be used in the real world to buy things. Ensuring that content creators are paid and not the middle men (so much). Steem turns social networks into socio-economic networks for those who want to use those features and those who don't can just ignore them.

Audience Engagement: A generally creative and intelligent audience, looking to improve the world (more-so than other networks).

Community Governance: The ability for anyone to gain power in the network just by buying in. This might seem to be a downside on one hand, since it means that the network is always for sale - but on the flip-side, it means that if the world desires the network to be free, then it can be - without needing difficult corporate takeovers or similar.

Fully Open Source: If the network becomes corrupted, it can be 'forked' and duplicated - remade in a new image - with no interference possible from the 'bad actors'.

Clearly, these are features that are rare in the world of social networks and to have them all in one place is very inspiring for anyone who knows their value and our need for them.

What makes a centralised social network great?

Ureka.org, like Facebook, Minds and others is a centralised social network. This means that currently, it runs from a private infrastructure that the public cannot participate in running (unlike Steem). This has some benefits over the decentralised model:

Privacy: Data can be held privately on behalf of the members of the community.

Evolution: Changes and new features can be added (by me) without needing the agreement of third parties - to match the needs of the community.

Boundaries: The rules and terms of the community can be defined independently to meet the needs of the community.

Resources: Code can be used from a wider range of open source projects since centralised project are more common/prevalent currently.

The Best of Both Worlds

Steem has always been intended to be used in a variety of contexts, including niche community networks and the recent addition of Steem-Engine and the soon to be released Smart Media Tokens (SMT) - plus baked-in community features for the Steem Blockchain - mean that community integration of Steem is about to get far more exciting and possible.

The challenge facing any social network and community site in this situation is how to design a system that best meets the needs of the people involved. We want the great, cutting edge features of Steem, but we don't necessarily want to lose the 'old world' features associated with social networks, such as privacy that allows us to post only for our friends or specific groups, for example.

The future for Ureka is a design that combines these two realities, allowing both privacy and full exploitation of the public blockchain! Maybe this is a first? I'm not 100% sure on that, let me know in the comments if you've seen this done before!

New Features at Ureka.org

In recent weeks I have roughly reached the halfway point in terms of integrating Steem into Ureka. The following features are already live at Ureka and can be used today:

Authorise your Steem account using SteemConnect.

Create posts in Ureka and crosspost them to Steem (and link on Twitter).

Auto update posts on Steem when they are edited on Ureka (and vice versa).

Auto sync comments from Steem into posts on Ureka (including posting to Steem from users of Ureka who don't have steem accounts) - merging the audiences.

Upvote posts and comments on Steem.

View who has voted on posts.

Delete comments on Steem.

Keep track of your tokens and wallet data via a custom wallet - including ability to power up/down, delegate/cancel, save/withdraw and send tokens.

Create a new account for Steem via Steem Ninja.

Receive email notifications via Ureka's own email system when comments are made on your Steem content posted via Ureka (if you like).

Coming Soon

To complete the initial integration of Steem, I will be adding the following in the coming weeks, as time allows:

Support for Steem Keychain.

Downvoting button.

Estimated value of votes.

Speed optimisations - so that pages load faster.

A Steem action queue - similar to Steempeak's, to allow Steem actions, such as votes and comment postings, to be processed behind the scenes in a queue.

Decryption of encrypted messages in the wallet.

Relocating features from Steemocean.com to Ureka.org - this is to make Ureka more useful and to make maintenance easier for me.

Add list filters to allow only Steem posts to be viewed if desired.

Show related posts from Steem users who are not part of ureka.

Integrate the best way to allow private messages to be posted to Steem - allowing groups and friends in Ureka to upvote their own posts, without the rest of the world being able to read them.

Delegations and Community Building

So far, the entire development for this has been completed by me at my own expense. The current price of Steem is so low that I am even running my witness at a loss currently - so I cannot keep this up indefinitely. If you like the idea of having a social network hybrid that focuses on healing, balancing and evolving human consciousness - that uses cutting edge Steem technology and is always open to new ideas... Then please do consider delegating Steem Power to @ureka or @ura-soul. Please also do pass this on to others who might share that vision and wish.

It would be really great to be able to build enough of a delegation that the best posts from Ureka users can be guaranteed a nice upvote from Ureka and that is definitely in my vision here too. There is no plan, currently, for Ureka to take any beneficiary cuts from posts made here - but all options are being kept open.

Thanks for reading and if you have any feedback, I'd love to read it in your comments below.

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108264/the-psychology-spirit-of-being-truly-free-ending-control-the-blame-gameWed, 22 May 2019 21:43:13 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108264/the-psychology-spirit-of-being-truly-free-ending-control-the-blame-game
A great deal of the desire to control other people and events arises from a lack of understanding of the divine nature of karma. The other key driver for belief in the need to control people and events is found in the gap between the conscious mind and the feelings it refuses to feel and has disowned.

When we have feelings, we do not automatically always feel and accept them. It is quite possible for our mind and self to disconnect from some feelings, particularly if we judge we don't like them. When this occurs, we create subconsciousness and possibly unconsciousness. This means we have parts of ourselves that don't receive the light of our awareness and which we are no longer aware of. This also means that we lose some of our ability to feel, since it is not possible to deny/block these parts without losing their faculties and input too.

Being in a state of partial unfeeling and being unaware of all of the information that we could be aware of - is a perilous state to be in. One effect can be that we are unaware of the nature of our own thought process and just how unloving it has become. We need to feel things to know how loving or unloving they are, plus, in many cases, to even know they exist. If we are unable to feel all of our thinking, then we can easily have thoughts which are unloving and even self destructive, without knowing it. These thoughts can run endlessly in loops in the background of our thinking process and are only understood or noticed when felt (either by us or by others). Usually, most people will just avoid feeling this in other people and not bring the subject up - so they enable this destructive cycle. Often, attempts to bring this up with people results in conflict, anger and more denials, so we collectively tend to agree to avoid doing so.

Misunderstandings leading to misplaced blame

When the mind knows it feels a certain way, but is disconnected from the original cause for the feeling (usually due to denials made previously), it's default position is to try to make sense of the feelings and often this results in it 'filling in the gaps' in understanding by forming judgements. In many cases, these will take the form of wrongly assuming that whoever is in the vicinity at the time has caused these denied feelings, when in truth the person may have only said something that triggered them to surface, or even may have had nothing to do with them at all. Since denied feelings tend to be angry at having been denied, this regularly plays out as people thinking that others are being unloving to them and then them getting defensive/angry, when in truth - the feeling of unlovingness they are experiencing is a result of their OWN mental unlovingness that is causing their OWN feelings to feel unhappy/pain.

I have seen this play out a couple of times recently where people were convinced I was trying to control them in some way - yet, I know and could feel that I was being very careful to not control them and to leave space in what I was saying for them to feel free and not have limitations placed on them in a controlling way. I knew from careful listening that the patterns involved were as a result of denied anger in them, which they were misinterpreting as arising as a result of something in the present moment, whereas in fact it was from past and unresolved trauma. I know this to be true because of conversations I had with one of them who happens to be a close relative who I know very well.

Ending Control to be Truly Free

It is easy to see and feel how someone who feels they are being controlled by others (falsely) might then become controlling of others in an attempt to 'defend' themselves against what they perceive to be an attack. This is particularly likely when the control they feel inside of themselves comes from their own controlling and fearful self which already performs that kind of control with regularity.

Ending control is the only way to be free - it's simple logic

In many cases, ending control means identifying the real causes of our own feelings of being controlled and healing them within ourselves and not 'out there'. Knowing that karma is a real process that intelligently guides life so that people have experiences from which to learn how to come into balance, is also very helpful here. Once you live out karmic experiences of your own and learn to feel the difference between karmic experience and non karmic experience, you can begin to understand another level of why controlling other people is unnecessary. If the person has intent to learn and knows how to be open to karmic experience, without judgement, then they will learn and the problems of relationship can be resolved. If the person does not understand karma and is not open to learning/healing/balancing/evolving, then it is often best to move away to avoid unnecessary suffering.

Karma is a divine process of intelligent orchestration and learning - we are wise to use it!

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108165/the-banks-are-predatory-no-better-than-a-mafia-gambling-cartel-communism-capitalism-polarise-divide-weaken-peopleSat, 18 May 2019 09:48:24 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108165/the-banks-are-predatory-no-better-than-a-mafia-gambling-cartel-communism-capitalism-polarise-divide-weaken-people
The gambling industry can only survive as long as it's 'customers' don't win overall against it and since the industry still exists, we can see how they have set up their system to protect themselves and 'always win'. Through careful image management and marketing, the gambling industry has tried to give the impression that it is 'just another business' 'bringing joy to the world' that isn't actively seeking to extract money from people via exploitation. Differences in perception about what the banking system is claimed to do and what the gambling industry does, have made it seem that the banking system is somehow more trustworthy than the gambling industry - since to those who have not studied the banking system it is often thought that 'at least the banks provide a service that includes safety'.

The reality here, though, is that many of the banks (and perhaps all of them) are involved in various degrees of exploitation and abuse of their customers. While gambling operators rely on manipulation of odds and the habitual behaviour of desperate people - banks rely on very much the same thing. A key difference between banks and gambling operators, however, is that people rely on bank accounts to be able to live in economically controlled societies and they find it difficult to stop using banks - while gambling is generally more optional. Given this dependency on banks, any corruption and exploitation they are involved with is particularly disturbing - akin to a child abuser working in a school, for example. If you are in need of survival help and the ones you go to for help are exploiting you covertly, then it is like a lamb going to a wolf for protection (or to a farmer that will ultimately put a bolt through their head for profit).

So what is it that has me so adamant about the evil of the banking system and it's operators?

I have made several posts previously, exposing aspects of the banking and financial systems that are clearly designed to be exploitative and out of balance. A system that is in everyone's best interest would not be charging 'interest' on money that is alleged to be loaned but which was created out of thin air (and thus couldn't technically be loaned in the first place) and when there isn't enough money in existence for all of the interest to be repaid. Significant numbers of people are now working through courts to expose the situation in Britain (cancelling a wide variety of mortgages in the process) and we may soon see more mainstream acceptance of the massive criminality involved.

Here's the real kicker for me:

Not only do the banks arrange criminal mortgages and fake debts for anyone and everyone - leading to massive imbalance, disempowerment and the huge wealth gap we see on Earth.. They are also involved in effecting governmental policy behind the scenes due to corrupt deals done with MPs and others that ultimately end up with life becoming harder and harder for everyone - leading to even less chance of paying alleged debts back. The more than 'lenders' can 'loan' money to people that doesn't exist, the more assets they can 'launder' that fake money into when their 'customers' are unable to pay the money back and the assets are seized. If you want to 'seize the means of production' in a communist stylee, then what better way to do it than through 'legal commerce' and banking?

If a company takes out an alleged loan to buy factory equipment and then cannot pay it back because the system is rigged, then the banks end up controlling that factory's assets and ultimately have now taken 'the means of production' without hardly doing anything at all. Why is THIS not an outrageous event yet? Why is THIS not something that causes survival instincts to kick in, the way that they have done in the past in response to communist ideals and attempts to seize the wealth of the planet?

I suspect that the answer here lies somewhere between the way that average people are invested in the banks (and rely on them) and the fact that the banks represent capitalism which is the chosen ideology of many people, which they trust (and have been programmed to be in acceptance of as a way to polarise away from communism - which is seen as an opposition). This 'dialectic' appears to me to be VERY much engineered for the purpose of controlling people and having us all fighting against each other. I strongly suspect that we cannot solve our problems until we learn to see through the massive control mechanism being played out unlovingly on Earth. If you are triggered here, consider the way your hopes and dreams are being used against you - regardless of whether you are in favour of capitalism OR communism.

The idea that these issues are just the result of government, is a dishonest and denial based assessment. The individuals within the governments that are involved in this unloving system are also very much involved with running and participating with the largest corporations and banks too - so without government, despite government's own evils and imbalances, it is possible that the situation would be even worse. This is not to say that government is beneficial overall - just that the situation of power imbalance is so massive currently, that anything that 'could' protect outright and total enslavement due to some levels of transparency within it and some oversight from 'the public' is better than none at all - which is what you would have if the wealthiest were left to their own devices.

I feel that there really is no solution here, other than for us all to understand the mechanics and benefits of real balance - to allow us all to then make the changes in life that lead to the creation of that balance. In terms of trade and commerce, this means being as self sufficient as possible, so as to not give power away to pyramid structured corporations and governments.

Wishing you well

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108201/self-acceptance-ending-guilt-are-needed-to-have-freedom-balance-successFri, 17 May 2019 10:53:38 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108201/self-acceptance-ending-guilt-are-needed-to-have-freedom-balance-success
Life can be challenging enough without the extra burden the guilt brings, yet many of us continue to assume that somehow guilt is helpful or even loving! The bigger picture is that guilt is involved with many of our biggest problems now - including tyrannical government - let's take a look...

The general case for guilt goes something like this:

Guilt is necessary because without it we would just do whatever we wanted and wouldn't care about the outcomes or how much we hurt each other. Guilt pushes us to make things right.

This, however, is not correct understanding of guilt. Guilt is not an active 'force' and is not even conscious - it cannot 'do' anything, it just feels a certain way and doesn't feel good. There is no guarantee that someone who is guilty will ever do what guilt demands and more importantly, there is no guarantee that what guilt demands is either loving or helpful in any way whatsoever. Just because you feel blamed, does not mean that you magically have all the answers and know how to best respond to any given situation.

The reality is that guilt is a compression of our emotional system that leads to an inability to feel good or even to feel at all. With enough guilt, the individual feels shut down and unable to function. This is no more a useful tool for consciousness than handcuffs are a useful tool for the body. The only 'use' these things have is for control and limitation - which are not, generally, effective tools in problem solving; rather, they are typically involved more in causing problems.

Guilt is caused by blame and involves invalidation and 'wronging' of something or someone. When someone feels denied and not accepted, if they accept the blame, they limit the love they can hold and the love they feel. Limiting love is not something that is going to improve the situation on Earth and is, in truth, actually the cause of many of our biggest challenges. For example, murder is an unloving act, yet our deepest conditioning around murder tells us that the correct response to murder is often violence and definitely not anything to do with love. How can a lack of love be resolved without the presence of love? It cannot.

While it might seem that guiltless living is an invitation for unlovingness, the reality is that it is only an invitation for free will. It is through free will that we can learn, grown and have the experiences needed to come into balance and self empowerment. You do not need to feel controlled and shut down in order to have balanced relationships and to respect the free will of others. In fact, you cannot respect the free will of others without respecting your own free will and to do that you need to be free and not weighed down in guilt.

Guilt has another role, which is to have us give away our own power and this is actually a large part of what is behind the intimidating form of government. As long as guilt tells you that you aren't good enough, you are also likely to reject your own power and in doing so, you open the door for government and others to take your power and use it against you and others. If you want to be free and have had enough of being pushed around by those that you do not respect, you are going to need to be more loving with yourself than you have ever been and to learn to take back your own power instead of giving it away because you are conditioned to think that you aren't good enough.

You can start to clear guilt out by allowing unconditional acceptance of your own emotions and allow them to safely express (in private if necessary) in ways that you have never allowed before. You need to change your thinking patterns to allow your emotions to feel fully accepted and only then can you feel balance in the process. Every time you shut down your own emotions, you are limiting your own consciousness - you need to feel this to understand it.

Once the free flow of emotions and information is really opened up, change will be easier, love can flow more than ever and healing will be taking place. Our destiny is ours and does not belong to those who would shut us down.

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108204/facebook-partially-reverses-cryptocurrency-ad-ban-just-as-crypto-prices-surge-upWed, 15 May 2019 19:03:16 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108204/facebook-partially-reverses-cryptocurrency-ad-ban-just-as-crypto-prices-surge-up
Facebook have announced an update to the cryptocurrency Ad ban that appears to have played a role in precipitating the mammoth crypto price crash of early 2018. There are many interesting news stories relating to crypto currently, but this is worth looking into in particular.

As @jpbliberty on #Steem brought to our attention via their class action lawsuit against Google and Facebook (which is still in the early stages), the price crash of Bitcoin from over $20,000USD that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the overall cryptocurrency market cap in early 2018, occurred 2-3 days after both Google and Facebook announced they were banning advertising of cryptocurrency projects. At the time this didn't make the headlines as being causal in the crash - however, these sites carry around 66% of all internet traffic and therefore a similar amount of all advertising opportunities. Cryptocurrency projects being banned from advertising there meant a huge limitation to their potential reach.

Facebook have been developing their own cryptocurrency (codenamed 'libra') which just adds fuel to the fire with regards the potential success of an anti-monopoly legal case against them. By blocking adverts for crypto projects and social networks such as Steemit, they breached anti-trust / anti-monopoly laws that say that businesses are not allowed to prevent their competitors from using their services. The outcome of the class action law suit is yet to be seen - however, we can see that the decision for Facebook to relax their rules has coincided with a strong rise in the price of Bitcoin and most other projects.

Facebook's press release states that they still intend to ban ICO ads, but projects that want to advertise for crypto products can now apply to them to do so and the blanket ban has ended. Their new policy, stipulates that most crypto services can now advertise, though some require permission to do so. I am unclear exactly how this relates to the potential for them breaching anti-trust laws, but I'd say they are definitely walking on thin ice!

Bitcoin's price has risen nearly 50% in the last couple of weeks and I don't find it to be random that Facebook's ad policy has changed around the same time. The rumours that Ebay was about to accept cryptocurrency have now been denied directly by their spokesperson, which is one of several recent claims that have likely turned out to be false. None the less, companies such as wholefoods and barnes & noble HAVE said they are going to allow crypto payments - so the market is generally in a bit of a tornado currently, trying to make sense of all the signals...

One thing is for sure, the next 12 months are going to be emotional for cryptocurrency enthusiasts!

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108064/an-introductory-video-to-the-new-steem-blockchain-features-on-urekaMon, 06 May 2019 18:52:49 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/108064/an-introductory-video-to-the-new-steem-blockchain-features-on-ureka
Here's a brief introduction to the new Steem blockchain features on Ureka.org. Ureka users can now crosspost to the Steem blockchain, comment, vote and earn rewards for their content on Ureka!

There are some novel aspects to the way Steem works on Ureka since it has a pre-existing database and membership who can opt-in to use Steem - Ureka is not a purely Steem powered site. I have some exciting ideas for new features and some that I think are unique for any site on the Steem eco-system. Stay tuned for more soon :)

If you have any questions or requests then let me know.

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kFOZl5dcDE

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/107950/remote-viewing-bashar-the-channelled-entity-is-remote-viewed-here-by-the-farsight-institute-et-or-notThu, 02 May 2019 16:04:25 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/107950/remote-viewing-bashar-the-channelled-entity-is-remote-viewed-here-by-the-farsight-institute-et-or-not
For those who are unaware, Bashar is the name given to a channelled 'ET' consciousness that has been expressing through numerous humans for decades. The most famous of these is Daryl Ankar (bashar.org). The Farsight Institute are a remote viewing group who use military derived psychic remote viewing techniques to gather information about targets and in this session they remote viewed Bashar - how EXCITING! :)

I have listened, previously, to over 500 hours of Bashar material - much of their back catalogue (though not the most recent material). I have only found one other source of information that I can hold up as being similarly intelligent and interesting. Having had some close encounters in physicality and having already learned some of truths shared via Bashar, I was very open to hearing what they have to say. Bashar, identify as a collective consciousness - a combined 'race' of ETs (collective presence) that can channel through humans and allow the human to speak their thoughts to audiences in two directions. They have shared insights on a huge number of topics and while I find them exciting, at times insightful and generally entertaining - I also found there to be contradictions and denials involved.

In these sessions, 3 remote viewers connect to Darryl Ankar and Bashar to see what they can learn. They do this blindly, not knowing the target in advance - they only have a code number that acts as a signal to connect their consciousness to the target via non local hyperspace (for want of a better term). They all experienced similar things, including the anxiety and mixed up emotional state Daryl experiences when channelling - they also all connected in realtime to Bashar, the entity and had communication!

In general, they described Bashar as being female - which I can understand since being balanced would, to our male dominated mind, be perceived as more feminine than we usually think of even our females as being. The mother energy is largely missing from humans currently and Bashar have stated themselves to be a hybrid race of Ets/Humans from our own future, speaking back to us - having developed the ability to do so. In that sense, we are like their parents but they are fully grown and we don't even know they exist. It's quite a complicated topic to understand.

In the first channelling session, some kind of military/CIA connection was highlighted and I find this important as I have felt it and observed it too. The channellers don't go into much detail on that here - however, they do not conclude that Darryl Ankar or Bashar are a 'psy-op', in fact, they concur that Bashar is a real entity that Darryl is channelling.

The channellers all pick up on the emotional and psychological challenges Darryl faces being in his position in this life. I found this to be helpful in understanding why he is as he is.

This is a must watch for anyone into these subjects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQiUAQwNyM

Wishing you well,

Ura soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/106956/all-discussions-at-urekaorg-have-been-automatically-converted-into-thoughtsSat, 20 Apr 2019 02:07:56 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/106956/all-discussions-at-urekaorg-have-been-automatically-converted-into-thoughts
As part of the process of integrating Steem features into ureka, I have had to retire the 'discussions' part of the site. They were not really needed anyway as the 'thoughts' section of the site contains all of the features that discussions contain except the 'open/closed' status (which no-one uses). This was necessary for technical reasons as the work needed to get discussions working with the new commenting system was way more than the discussions section is worth!

All discussions have been automatically converted into 'thoughts' and should be accessible in your list of thoughts. Let me know if you have any problems.

Wishing you well,

Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/104078/why-free-speech-in-social-networks-is-essential-and-where-to-find-itSat, 16 Mar 2019 01:16:07 +0000https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/104078/why-free-speech-in-social-networks-is-essential-and-where-to-find-it
For those old enough to remember the early days of the internet, true free speech is not mythical! Early social and community sites rarely - if ever - took action to censor or delete users. I fondly recall my time at tribe.net, where people helped each other to learn, to balance and deal with their issues instead of censoring them. Today though, corporates, governments and 'special interests' use censorship on a daily basis under the guise of 'protecting' us from threats that we aren't apparently mature or intelligent enough to see for ourselves.

Today we have a handful of mega sites with billions of people interacting 24 hours a day. The systems that run these sites have become ever more complex and automated, able to use machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence to enforce rules of all kinds constantly. It is understandable that with so many people communicating through such platforms, that their operators would seek to improve the quality of the experience of their users by attempting to automate account management systems that highlight users who are excessively anti-social or operating illegally. However, it is clear that these systems are often used to cause people problems who are not anti-social and who are simply attempting to discuss ideas that the site's operators intend to be silenced.

Censorship on Mainstream Social Networks

While some will say that free speech is not a right in a private setting, evidenced by the fact that you may eject someone from your home if you don't like what they are saying - the internet is not the same as a home. If technology corporations with budgets of billions of dollars end up carrying more than 50% of the entire traffic of the internet, then it becomes difficult for anyone to avoid using their services if they intend to use the internet to be heard publicly. If subsets of the population are denied access to such tools, while others are not, then information available online will be hugely skewed. The biasing of information is hugely desirable to those who seek power over others and wisdom says than in the face of 'fake news' and misinformation, the sensible solution is to promote the education of research techniques that help us to find the truth, rather than dictating from on high what the truth is and blocking out access to other material and voices.

We cannot have balance in society while some are drowned out by those with the most money and technological reach. Sooner or later pressure will build and we will see more and more of the kind of activity we have seen in France in recent months, with large numbers of people clashing with police due to frustrations of not being heard and of being overpowered by their politicians. We cannot create real balance while censoring each other as to censor is to overpower and both are themselves forms of imbalance. Personal responsibility must take the place of 'voices of authority' trying to make decisions for other people.

Many will not realise the extent to which information is being hidden until they themselves attempt to share information via the web that is of a nature that the controllers do not want to spread. They will find that their comments are not read by people who previously were very engaged with their posts. They may find the features of the site they regularly use start to fail inexplicably and in some cases their entire profile may be suspended, often without a meaningful explanation.

Free speech social networks?

Thankfully, there are a variety of social media platforms that do value true free speech and who will rarely if ever step in to censor content. Generally, they do recognise that not ALL content has a place on the web - and all (that I know of) will step in to remove content that is evil and illegal (such as child abuse media), but will not get involved in attempting to silence opinions and thoughts just because they are unpleasant to some people. From a social and psychological perspective, it is actually healthier for us to see the mind state of other people and to then be able to develop methods of helping the more disturbed among us to find balance, than it is to pretend they simply don't exist.

Some sites, such as those powered by the Steem blockchain, use open source technology that is not technically owned by anyone, to provide a backbone for free speech conversation to take place. The sites that use the database of the blockchain to store their content may censor content to some extent (usually only when faced with legal demands to do so), but the raw data of the posts themselves will still remain accessible on the blockchain for those who want to view it. Technically, content can still be removed from the blockchain if those who collectively run the blockchain agree to it, but this is rare since the kind of extreme content that would require this to be done is rarely posted there.

Other sites, such as minds.com, gab.com (and dissenter, their commenting system that allows comments to be written about any page on the internet) do have more of a centralised structure, but also respect free speech as much as possible. This site, Ureka.org, is also another free speech friendly place.

The nature of ureka.org is to be a space for healing and so direct attacks against people are taken very seriously here - however, rather than troubled and aggressive people facing automated banning, they are first likely to be presented with the more humane option being asked to enquire within themselves why they are being anti-social and if more constructive behaviour is possible for them. Ureka is a non commercial site, so direct advertising is usually classed as spam and may attract post deletion, however, there is no censorship of posts just due to the beliefs of the writer and nature of their opinions.

Free thinking for the win!

Free speech is about more than just respecting each other enough to allow each other to be able to speak openly. Free speech allows free thinking to take place and it is only through free thinking that we can innovate and find solutions to problems that have their roots in dysfunctional traditions, habits and belief systems that may seem 'normal' to those who adopt them, but which ultimately cause suffering and can be improved upon. If we are stuck with controlled narratives and limited thinking, then we ourselves are limited and can never reach the true greatness we deserve!

If you or anyone you know has experienced censorship by social networks, search engines or other online services, let us know in the comments below - we'd love to hear your story. If you want to support free speech online, why not share ureka.org with your friends too?

Wishing you well,

Ura soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/101705/the-mechanics-of-innocence-and-guilt-in-a-sense-innocence-makes-inner-sense-non-judgement-day-is-comingFri, 29 Sep 2017 22:37:37 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/101705/the-mechanics-of-innocence-and-guilt-in-a-sense-innocence-makes-inner-sense-non-judgement-day-is-coming
Continuing the theme of examining the deeply twisted and broken 'judicial' system and also bringing in the very important topic of emotional and psycho-spiritual health - let's look at the finer points of what innocence and guilt are...

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Correctly understanding guilt, innocence and the associated judgements, denials and blame is absolutely essential if we are to know peace and balance. Not only are these terms the essential foundation of our 'legal' systems, but they are - more significantly - directly a part of the underlying causes of our emotional dysfunctions, mental dysfunctions and also the physical diseases that originate in emotional/psychological injury.

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Definitions

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It is always helpful to look at the commonly held definitions for words we are discussing - since while the dictionary definitions are often inaccurate for such important terms as these - lacking depth and detail (or even being totally backwards sometimes) they are at least a common reference point that we can all relate to.

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innocent - 1 a :free from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil :blameless an innocent child

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b :harmless in effect or intention … searching for a hidden motive in even the most innocent conversation. —Leonard Wibberley

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c :free from legal guilt or fault; also :lawful a wholly innocent transaction

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2 a :lacking or reflecting a lack of sophistication, guile, or self-consciousness :artless, ingenuous b :ignorant

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; also :unaware perfectly innocent of the confusion he had created —B. R. Haydon

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3 :lacking or deprived of something her face innocent of cosmetics —Marcia Davenport

So we can see that there are a variety of interpretations and ways in which the words are typically applied in our commonly used language. Essentially, Innocence conveys the idea of being absent of guilt and malicious intentions, while guilt could mean having done wrong in a way that has caused harm OR it could be a FEELING of deserving blame.

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It is essential to notice that there are at least two distinct psychological, emotional and spiritual phenomena being described here by the word 'guilt' that can exist without each other. Guilty feelings do not inherently require us to have truly caused harm in some way, since we can experience guilty feelings just due to accepting blame - we could be truly innocent of all wrongdoing and yet still be faced with blame and still - for our own reasons - accept that blame into us and end up with guilty feelings. The other meaning of the word guilt describes a more mental, idea based phenomenon which is more often used in the context of a court room (or school room). Someone may be totally innocent, yet be judged to be 'guilty' and they may have no guilty feelings at all because they genuinely did nothing wrong - and yet, none the less - 'someone' is going to 'punish' them for their 'guilt'.

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I am aiming here to make clear that there is a real energetic state that is accurately described as 'guilt' (the emotional state of 'guilty feelings') and there is a theoretical, judgement based, mental labelling of someone that is alleged to also be 'guilt' but which is less tangible and cannot be felt as it's own presence within the allegedly guilty individual. We need to fully appreciate the difference between these two for reasons I will now explain.

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Guilt is not a loving presence and it does not serve us at all

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Many of us have been led to believe that guilt is necessary for us to 'do good' - since, it has been reasoned, guilt lets us know we are doing wrong. However, this is not a right understanding of guilt. Every action we undertake is an act of our will and we experience the expression of our will's desires and needs as feelings. We may feel attracted to or repulsed by certain people and events/experiences - so we are either willing to move towards them or we are repulsed by them and are unwilling.

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If we desire a certain experience and are judged as being 'bad' or 'wrong' for choosing that experience, then our emotional body and will has to bare the weight of that judgement. Just like a child that has been 'told off' (switched off) for doing as they pleased - who then feels 'bad' and is like a barometer for the lack of love that now faces them - our own will can be shut down and actually harmed just by being judged. Our will typically does not seek destruction or unloving actions and it may be that we need to learn from our mistakes so that we can be attuned more to what we really need and what experiences are truly of value for us. If we are punished just for choosing with our free will, by someone who 'takes offence' at our actions - provided we are not overpowering anyone - then we are meeting unloving intentions that proclaim to be protecting us and others, but which are not. For example, if I decide to do a little dance in the street - just for fun, there are people who are so unloving and controlled that they will judge against me for doing that and may even verbally abuse me and call me 'stupid'.. Obviously, I have done nothing wrong, but my emotions will still have received that judgement and if I am not strong willed enough I may take it in as a form of guilt. In fact, if I don't allow my real emotions to vibrate in response to the insult/judgement and maybe let some anger move to defend me or maybe just a defiant dance move - then I am also creating a form of guilt within me because I am being shut down internally and not doing what I truly feel like doing.

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The point here is that if I feel I need to move in a particular way and i stop myself from doing so, then I am automatically blaming my emotions that want to be free - just by controlling and limiting them. If you need to move and someone stops you from moving, then you will not feel good and it is just the same when our own mind stops our own emotions and will from moving. We are literally creating a form of blame by unconsciously (or consciously) judging our emotions as being 'wrong' just by not letting them move freely. The result is that we can feel actual guilt from the most mundane of situations and as this dysfunction, due to control, is repeated and builds up over time - we can become more and more shut down, less comfortable, weaker and eventually even manifest disease.

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Guilt is constrictive and is actually a form of fear that is frightened that we will be told again not to feel as we really do.

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This is the REAL form of guilt.

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The other forms of guilt are just thoughtforms that proclaim guilt and which are actually attempting to create guilt in us, but which may not succeed. I may accuse you of wrongdoing, but you may not accept blame and may instead ACCEPT YOURSELF - thus not creating guilty feelings!

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Being free of guilt is a GOOD thing

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Some are claiming that psychopaths do not have guilt and thus to be free of guilt is a problem that implies a lack of integrity. This is totally incorrect. An absence of guilt equates to innocence and innocence is our NATURAL STATE. It is perfectly possible to have no guilt, yet to have made serious mistakes that are harmful - while not being in any way 'mad', 'crazy' or 'evil'. Provided we are fully accepting self, intending to learn, heal, balance and evolve - then our mistakes are accepted, we are accepted and we will do what we can to not cause harm again. It is more accurate to say that it is dysfunctional to not accept responsibility for our own actions and our own state of being; it is the failure to accept personal responsibility that typically is behind a wide array of dysfunctional behaviours and alleged mental illness.

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If we are free of guilt, then we are in a healthy emotional state and our emotions are free to move and express - which is necessary for them to fulfil their evolutionary role in guiding us to experiences that we prefer/need and away from what we don't prefer/need. So, in short, casting blame onto self and others is a hindrance that serves no purpose and only reduces the amount of love and balance on Earth. If someone has intent to learn from mistakes then those mistakes can be pointed out without blame and without causing further imbalance - yet if they do not have intent to learn, then casting blame will not improve the situation anyway, since blame does not cause people to change their intentions in and of itself. Declaring someone else to be 'guilty' as occurs in court is always misleading and adds to the confusion in the emotional bodies of those involved, since there may not actually be any real guilty feelings present and ultimately it is what we feel that is real for us internally - while the rest is to some extent theoretical or at least not fully known/understood.

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It would be much more accurate to say that "We have decided you committed the crimes we say you have committed" than it would be to say "you are guilty of these crimes". If we are going to allege that courts uphold truth, the least we can do is actually take the most basic of steps towards being accurate in our use of language and definition of what is transpiring.

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Innocence does not mean naivety

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Real innocence can be as simple as not having any guilty feelings - there is not requirement for a lack of understanding, knowledge of wisdom in us for us to be innocent. Feelings that feel guilty can be healed from the guilt by being felt into by loving consciousness with intent to heal and intent to allow them to vibrate. This is very much like the way a loving mother will nurse a hurt child and yet it occurs internally within us. Since very few of us think and live this way - with many of us having been totally reversed away from self care of this form - it is no surprise to me that our hospitals are full and suffering is epidemic.

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To me, innocence means a state of non judgement and balance that feels good. It is our optimal self and if others who are themselves feeling guilty attempt to project unloving blame onto and into us, we are not obliged to lose our innocent, good feelings - we simply need to allow our deep understanding of emotional balance to trigger emotions that will move and serve to protect us in the right and loving way.

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The major challenge here is that none of this can really be understood just by reading it and thinking about it - we need to FEEL it before it will 'make sense'.

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In a sense, Innocence makes Inner Sense!

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Wishing you well, Ura Soul

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/100740/%E2%99%A1-heart-healing-series-%E2%99%A1-1-a-guided-healing-meditation-from-the-heartTue, 13 Jun 2017 18:19:15 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/100740/%E2%99%A1-heart-healing-series-%E2%99%A1-1-a-guided-healing-meditation-from-the-heart
It is sadly a little understood fact that healing begins within us - it does not begin in a medical doctor's mind or in a laboratory. Any good medical doctor knows and teaches that he/she can only do so much to help a patient and that in all cases they are simply helping the patient's body/mind systems to heal themselves.We can be so emotionally harmed that our healing will decreases and we do not heal. In fact, the word 'doctor' means 'teacher', not 'healer'.

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This is why it is so powerful and healing to work on the emotional body and the heart which is both emotional and embodies thought process too. The heart is also the central electromagnetic organ in the body - producing a quite large electromagnetic field and also creates electromagnetic pulses with each heart beat that resonate out a very long way - effectively meaning that all of our hearts can resonate as one if the desire is present for that to be so.

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Our hearts collectively form the natural 'inner-net'.

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I am now going to take you on an inward journey of exploration - so that you can experience some subtle changes that become possible by realigning the way we think, feel and perceive. The aim here is to increase awareness, to discover parts of self that we have been unaware of and to increase personal balance/wellbeing. Whether or not the benefits last for you is down to your own choices internally as you continue on in life. Depending on how injured and in/out of balance you already are, you may find that you open a doorway that leads to increased sense of connection with life and an increased ability to understand and connect with others in a useful way. It is important to understand that the present state of humanity is such that we are often deliberately closing down soul connection and our hearts precisely because we don't want to connect with others for our own reasons - so do not assume that you are 'failing' here if you do not experience enhanced connection and empathy with others - it may simply be that they are not open and willing to allow that connection fully. You may also find that you yourself need to process emotionally before you are actually willing to go ahead and do what your more mental aspect is curious about here.

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Getting comfortable

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We are going to explore your inner reality and you need to be able to do this without being interrupted by other people, sounds or anything else - so switch off your phones, computers and other field emitting devices and ideally put them in another room. I even recommend switching off any WIFI routers you may have and best of all just go out somewhere into the natural environment bare footed where you can connect to the wonderful natural resonance that will help you come into touch with where I intend to point you here.

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Preparing the breath

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Our breath is truly a powerful gateway into the unknown of who we are. It is the lungs and breath that function both consciously and usually unconsciously too - so by becoming more deeply conscious of the breathing process, we are also connecting our conscious parts to our unconscious parts. Breathing deeply into the belly - but not stressing any parts - and then breathing fully out is sufficient to start to break any habits of chest breathing and shallow breathing. We need oxygen and so this is a good opportunity to start to open up the lungs to more oxygen if you are someone who does not do that usually.

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There is no rush here, simply relaxing and breathing and holding the intentions to HEAL, BALANCE & EVOLVE will do much more than you might be expecting in advance of experiences that can show you the potential here.

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Drawing inwards

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Where we place our attention is significant in determining our experience and also what we can learn and understand. Our world has become over complicated and out of balance, so we are often conditioned to constantly be alert to phenomena that are outside of our own body - 'out there' in the world. This is fine if we are driving a car or navigating a supermarket - but right now we are going to shift that into an inward awareness - we are going to draw our attention inward using an intention to do so. Our ability to do this involves FEELING and so we feel all the way through our body, from the tips of the toes, moving slowly upwards to the top of the crown of the head.

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Re-member, you are only feeling YOU - there is no need to fret and worry about the process. You may feel pains and tensions that you habitually ignore - just continuing your breathing and focusing into what you would otherwise deny is enough to get the 'ball rolling' here. As you increase your acceptance of these pains and feelings you may experience an increased sense of peace and balance. You may sigh or need to stretch or move - that's all fine - ending control is a helpful move as the result is an increase in freedom.

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Notice how much thinking stops as you stop focusing outside and also notice any barriers you may be holding that say it is wrong for you to focus only on yourself. We are often programmed to falsely beLIEve that inward focus is ‘selfish’ or ‘not good enough’ - this though only creates guilt and guilt is it’s own blockage to self acceptance, peace and balance. There is, in truth, no way for us to be completely happy and balanced without going inwards and compassionately accepting all that we find of us there – so those who will blame us for allowing ourselves to focus on ourselves are themselves out of balance and outside of integrity. There is no need to blame them, simply be aware that you do not need to join them in their blame game by blaming yourself.

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Heart

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Re-member, there is no rush here. As you are exploring inwardly you can notice your own heart and the feelings in your heart area. What does your heart feel pulled or pushed to do or be or focus on? You can inquire of yourself why your heart is as it is. If you have no understanding of how a heart can feel or think in these ways, then you can feel in your belly and elsewhere to seek out any emotions that are keeping your heart denied and closed down. Often fear and guilt are responsible for this and you may need to process those emotions safely before you can really feel and reach your heart. Allowing your emotions to make sounds in private is the way to peacefully get those feelings moving and to allow them to evolve into new feelings.

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Continuing breathing, while feeling your heart – Are there desires and needs that you know to exist in your heart that you have been blocking out or blocked from pursuing in some way? Allowing your heart’s essence to vibrate will let you know what you are doing there and you may experience waves of symbolic imagery and other types of thoughts which help you to navigate and understand yourself here. There is no need to attach your mind to the images, just stay focused on being receptive in general to whatever is revealed in you.

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How does your heart pulse feel? Do you feel any restriction? Any pain? You can always ask your body’s cells if they are in need of something, such as nutrition, exercise, sunlight, rest or anything else. Your body is highly intelligent and yet ironically it is our out of balance ‘mental mind’ that often has been misled into thinking that the body is ‘dumb’ and must be ‘controlled’. It is only when the ‘mental mind’ listens to the body’s voice with compassion that we can have harmony of our internal aspects and this balance is found in the heart.

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Finding the balance

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Continue on, it may take some time before each layer of your feelings and injuries become noticed and before your anxieties release enough for your conscious energy to be able to optimally respond to what you are uncovering. Again, there is no need to rush.

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Give particular attention to any messages and voices and memories you may uncover, they may be in the form of your own voice ‘records’ or records of someone else’s voice. Who told you that weren’t good enough? Who told you that you are unlovable? There are many such judgements that humans have infected each other with over the aeons and they all need to be released now if we are to heal and enjoy the balanced health and the longevity it brings. By learning to feel for what is and what is not a judgement inside of us, we can really clarify our own mental processes and really begin to feel free again.

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Judgement release

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Judgements are thoughtforms that are rigid and attempt to define a situation as being a certain way. We make them when we think we must come to a conclusion about a particular subject and we don’t know all the details. Judgements always contain errors and imprecisions and we can learn to feel their presence – they always deny something and we can feel the presence of denial.

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Are you denying yourself self-love because of a judgement? Perhaps you are judging that ‘only good boys/girls are lovable’ and ‘I am not good’ - These are both common judgements that our ‘teachers’ and ‘parents’ weighted us down with as they unlovingly thought that control was the way to gain peace in their lives – when, in truth, the opposite is true. Control prevents free expression and free expression is necessary to ensure our energy can move and evolve. The alternative is the stagnation that so many have known on earth – Victorian England is not an ideal model for child rearing!

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Emotional Movement

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Mediation should not be rigid and static. If feelings arise then let them move and express – with body movement and sound if you feel to. It is only through allowing LIFE to move in and as us that we can heal and be empowered. Every emotion has a sound signature, you only need to feel the emotion and let the energy-motion trigger your body in the way that feels right for you.

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The more you do this, the easier it will become and the better you will feel.

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Finish whenever you prefer

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There are no real rules surrounding the timing of the kind of emotional and heart healing I am sharing here. The idea is to stop applying force and pressure to self, so timetables are counter productive. When you feel you are ready to return to the events of life, just go right ahead!

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Love!

]]>ura soulhttps://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/100239/how-to-identify-clear-and-heal-the-root-causes-of-anxietyTue, 06 Jun 2017 10:12:43 +0100https://www.ureka.org/thoughts/view/100239/how-to-identify-clear-and-heal-the-root-causes-of-anxiety
Most of us at some time have experienced some degree of 'anxiety' and while some of us may then find balance again relatively quickly, many more will experience a sense of being stuck with the undercurrent dread, panic, fear and guilt that often combine to create an overall sense of unease that we do not fully understand. Here i will explore this subject and provide some insights that i have gained through my own lived experience and personal study in this field.

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Often, a distinction is made between anxiety and fear - whereby fear is defined as being a response to a 'real' threat or challenge, whereas anxiety is defined as being a longer lasting, potentially more limiting emotional state that is often not so easy to find causes for. So we already have a number of avenues of exploration here that need to be understood in full before we can learn to heal anxiety at it's root.

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Why is there a challenge in finding the cause of anxiety?

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When our feelings/emotions are lovingly accepted by us and allowed to express fully, they are free to change and evolve as we do and in response to the ever changing realities we experience in life. This ideal state of free expression is sadly rare in our current world environment and if you stop the acquisition of this text using your logical, sequential mind long enough and simply feel just how absent the free expression of emotion has become in human life on Earth - If you have not completely disconnected from your real feelings - then you will very likely feel some of the truth of what is being said here. When we choose to deny our real emotions and choose to control them rather than express them, we cause numerous problems within our own energy system and one of those is that we force the emotions and their original causes to become semi-conscious or even unconscious.

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When we choose to deny our real emotions and choose to control them rather than express them, we cause numerous problems within our own energy system and one of those is that we force the emotions and their original causes to become semi-conscious or even unconscious.

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Once our emotional routes/roots are unconscious within us we are no longer able to consciously understand them, their message, their needs and their origins. This 'pool' of denied emotions can build within us and is usually layered, with the deepest layer often being fear, panic and terror and the layers on top of that fear often being rage and anger that seek to hide the existence of the fear and protect us from what we are frightened by. This unconscious pool of emotional energy drains us, makes us tired and directly effects everything we think, say and do. We can hold this for so long in life that to us it becomes 'normal' and we have no concept that this state is in fact not balanced and thus not really normal at all.

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It is the unconsciousness and disconnection from the causes of feelings that have arisen over possibly long periods of time that initially makes identifying the causes of our anxiety a difficult challenge. By the time our collage of emotions has evolved into anxiety we may have lived a considerable numbers of years and made many decisions that further complicate our inquiry and search for internal truth and balance. The anger that sits on top of the fear also makes the challenge even greater - since anger will often completely distract us away from the journey of discovery and have us wanting to attack others and ourselves instead of actually learning, healing, balancing and evolving. These problems begin with our own denial of self and emotions. The denial that allowed and caused the emotions to sit in an unprocessed and unaccepted state also has a part to play in preventing the identification of the causes of anxiety since there is already an inherent rejection of the issue by us and thus a rejection of the reality of the situation - as we inappropriately justify our emotional control and suppression for our own reasons.

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What do we need to do to find the balance?

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Just as when we have forgotten what we experienced in our own past and are suddenly triggered by something to remember, so too may we be triggered into coming into contact with our lost/unconscious emotions. Often the trigger comes in the form of meeting a similar experience, person, feeling, sound, thing or other energy vibration to the ones that were involved in causing our lost and unconscious emotions originally. The similarity brings us to a state that momentarily forces our conscious mind to once again connect to what we have denied within us and we are then presented with a choice - although we may not recognise it yet - where we can either choose a path of inner unification, healing and balance or we can continue the denial and possibly make our problems worse by further burying the issue within our unconscious self. When entering this state of being, most of us - in ignorance of our options - have chosen to do our best to just ignore the problem, change the subject or at best just allow a small amount of the emotions to surface and express. We have been so conditioned away from free expression of emotions that, in fact, a furious volcano of rage within us may be so squashed and compressed that it never appears on our exterior as anything more than a constant expression of discomfort on our face.

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If we are to heal our emotional body and the myriad of symptoms that arise in the rest of us as a result of emotional injury, we need to go beyond this control and learn to give real expression to real feelings in the way that feels good. If we were to really feel deeply and examine our own thoughts on why we are controlling the emotions we would find that the thoughts are usually based on error and are certainly not based in joy or an intention to increase self acceptance, awareness and expression of love. It is this alignment away from love and towards control that wreaks havoc in our emotional body and in life in general.

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It is this alignment away from love and towards control that wreaks havoc in our emotional body and in life in general.

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It may be obvious to many that anxiety is closely involved with fear and a sense of threat to survival - but what is not so obvious due to the denial involved, is that with anxiety, the threat to survival may be very real - but just not understood. Often we are led to believe that emotions are 'dumb' or at least we certainly do not value them as a divine aspect of who we are that have their own powerful presence and role in our evolution as individuals; this apparent lack of intelligence in our emotions is not an inherent failure of emotions however, in truth the problems began when our mind decided to ignore the emotions, since conscious focus and acceptance is what the emotions need to remain balanced and helpful. This denial and lack of acceptance is literally a threat to our own survival, just as real of a threat as suffocation or a car crash may be to us. Our deepest feeling parts know this already, but are often disconnected from our conscious mind - so much so that that our conscious (more mental) parts commonly create all kinds of explanations for our feelings which have little accuracy in them at all. If you can imagine a small child being ignored by everyone around them and feeling frightened that she cannot get what she needs in life then you can begin to feel and understand how our emotional bodies feel as a result of having been so extensively denied by our mind and other parts.

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Healing the surface aspects

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Since some of the emotions involved are more conscious than others, it is common and understandable for us to begin by healing the more conscious and known/obvious feelings and to then go deeper when we are ready. So how do we do this?

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In short, the emotions need to VIBRATE. Emotions all have their own sound signature and when we feel them deeply and just breath - with no force or mental control involved, we will come to feel in our body a need to move and express in some way - commonly involving a sound. Moans, shrieks, screams, sighs, laughter and many other sounds may feel to be the right sounds for you that need to be made as different emotions surface. Once you begin expressing and feeling consciously your own buried and lost feelings, you will gradually start to feel better and feel a release. Anxieties will gradually be understood with greater depth and will transform into greater peace as you come into alignment with the best version of yourself that lives complete truth internally.

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The mental component

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The other important part to this process is the mental component which requires us to identify the false thoughts we have been holding and to release them - allowing our thinking to evolve and for us to become more aware, free and conscious. The limiting beliefs are often held in the form of judgments which state that 'x is y' - rigidly defining the situation and not leaving space open for change. Examples of such judgments are 'I am ugly' and 'People are stupid' - neither of these statements are absolute truth and yet we often panic and feel a need to define reality in order to make some sense of things and to enforce a type of control into life that we think we need. It is this attempt to define, limit and control our reality that sets us up for our own suffering, since our experience of life, our thinking and our potential decreases exponentially as we layer in more and more judgments into our own thought processes. Holding such limiting and false thoughts can cause us to feel uneasy and stressed, we also generate false emotions to support our false thoughts - all of which adds to the discomfort and dis-ease.

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Holding such limiting and false thoughts can cause us to feel uneasy and stressed, we also generate false emotions to support our false thoughts - all of which adds to the discomfort and dis-ease.

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The combination of judgment release and emotional decompression and expression (movement / vibration) is VERY powerful and you can clear a lot of held charges quite quickly if you really put your heart and mind into it. You will start to feel better rapidly and will come to learn the value of the process despite held fears that may continue to prevent some progress due to them not being ready to come forward for clearance yet. Releasing judgments is as simple as finding the presence of the judgment, feeling into all the emotions that connect to the judgment, allowing the feelings to express and then openly stating that you no longer believe the judgment. This combination of action and intent will make the necessary mental and emotional space within you for deep change to occur.

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Going deeper and remembering your past

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Inevitably, as you access lost feelings, you will begin to remember past experiences that you had forgotten. You may encounter everything you have most wanted to get away from - including traumas, heart breaking experiences and nightmares. This though, is not a reason to give up or to judge that healing is too difficult or frightening to attempt. The reality is that these things will only come forward when you are ready providing you truly hold the intentions to HEAL, BALANCE & EVOLVE. It is our intentions that determine our destiny in our lives and once our emotional body and will can feel that we intend to heal, we will be tapped in to immense intelligence that knows how best to proceed - even if we consciously lack that understanding at present.

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When troubling memories and feelings do surface, we will already have increased our understanding of self and our level of balance and self-love, such that we are much more able to process and heal our ailing parts than we were during the original trauma. By simply using the lessons learned from healing our surface issues, we can more easily vibrate our more deeply compressed and denied parts - bringing them into a healthy state of peace and acceptance within us - even if the path to doing so involves a few loud screams and noises along the way. It is infinitely wiser to go through the process of making the sounds you have been programmed never to make, than it is to live under the weight of unloving emotional control and the dogma of the voices that tell you that you are wrong to be and feel as you are.

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True healing does not involve drugs and can be done if you are ready

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The corrupt and seriously lacking modern 'medical industry' will always do what it can to claim that there is no real solution to many problems and that the best we can do is take drugs to suppress symptoms. This is akin to painting over the warning lights in your car when there is a problem in your car and attempting to continue as if everything is fine. Eventually the care (and you) will break down and what was once a simple problem has now become much worse. When we used chemicals to attempt to change what is ultimately a feeling problem, we not only fail to solve the problem, but we make the problem worse by creating a false sense of security AND usually through adding a toxic load to the body in the form of the drugs themselves. This is 'great' only for the shareholders in the drug companies and has nothing to do with real healing.

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Real healing starts in the heart, not in a medical university and healthcare is a DESIRE, not a MARKET!

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If you take the time now to let what you have read hear sink into your feelings, you will find an emotional response that can be understood and can be the starting point of your process of healing.

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Correct posture, nutrition and breathing will help settle your energy and keep you flowing

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An additional, important aspect is the need to support the body with all that it needs to stay balanced. This includes making sure you are not deficient in any nutrients, including sunlight and oxygen. This is a large subject of it's own and you can find a lot of helpful information here at Ureka in the nutrition zone and moving bodies zone. I recently wrote here about breathing specifically.

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You really can heal anxiety on your own and it will empower you to do it

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This is a much larger subject than can be covered in a few paragraphs - but what has been shared here is enough to 'flick on a lightbulb' or two in minds of those who intend to find balance. There are many more pages on related topics here at ureka.org, so if you want to read more you can search at ureka or start a discussion thread in a relevant zone.